Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect. Work Location: Houston, TX Duration: 6+Months Assignment Scope/Minimum Skills: • Clear written and verbal communicator with ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and new processes into documentation • Ability to present solution architectures to individuals of varying levels of cloud experience • Senior-level technical delivery experience at the Enterprise level with hands-on involvement, not leadership of teams doing the work • Ability to be consulted (listening, analyzing, proposing) on the build out of highly scalable, flexible, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions • Strong individual contributor able to troubleshoot solutions, provide technical guidance and key learnings to fast-paced agile teams with frequent product releases • Identify opportunities for best practices, processes, standards, reinforcement to strengthen our cloud practices • Experience with configuring and implementing solutions utilizing DevOps and Infrastructure as Code approach (CI/CD pipelines and ARM templates) on the Azure platform • Current expertise with Azure cloud solutions as listed below: • Azure DevOps • Networking • Windows/Linux virtual machines • Container • Storage • ELB • AutoScaling • Azure Functions • Serverless Architecture • ARM Templates • Azure SQL DB/DW • Data Factory • Azure Stream Analytics • Azure Analysis Service Preferred Skills: • Current expertise with comparable AWS cloud solutions as listed above Certifications: • At least Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 certification or Azure Developer Associate AZ-204 This is a 6+ month project.
